UPDATE:

Apparently, I was not in on the gag and made a buttinski outta myself for falling for it…the following is not a real site. (Thank you Vic, the commenter, for pointing this out.)
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I was recently alerted to a website called “Marry Our Daughter“, where it features girls between the ages 14 and 17, along with their pictures and with price tags that range between $4,000 - $100,000 (dowry), asking men to marry them for the fee listed.

Where is this organization and where are these girls from? America! That’s right. The good ol’ USA. I thought for sure this most be an offshore site, because clearly this can’t be legal.

Here’s an ad direct from their homepage:

Kyra A.
Age: 14 ½,
Location: Southeast

Bride Price:
$27,995

Located on their FAQ page:

Q: IS YOUR SERVICE LEGAL?
A: Absolutely. Within the United States girls can marry as young as 13 years old with parental permission, and the Bride Price is a custom of long standing, mentioned many times in the Bible, and as such is a protected religious practice. Click HERE for a listing of the age limits and legal requirements in various states. Click HERE for what the Bible says on Bride Price.

Q: WHAT IS A BRIDE PRICE?
A: The bride price is an ancient custom, somewhat like a dowry. A man wishing to marry a woman would offer her family a Bride Price in cash or kind, or sometimes offer to work for their family.

I am horrified. If this is legal, why hasn’t this been exposed on Dateline or 20/20? Isn’t that what those tabloid news shows are supposed to do? Tell us about horrors that we never knew existed?

And, of course, they present themselves as Bible thumping fundamentalists that are prostituting these girls for the sake of God.

Crazy. This has got to be a pedophiles paradise. Where is the DCFS in all this?

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Being hailed as a saint on one side and a “punisher of thought crimes” on the other, a California judge recently issued a restraining order against self-proclaimed pedophile Jack McClellen ordering him to keep at least 30 feet away from any child or be arrested.

This article names a few people who believe the restraining order violated McClellen’s first amendment rights and assert that until he actually molests a child (or is caught — it wouldn’t surprise me if he already has), that his taking pictures of toddler girls, posting them on his website, and explaining to other pedophiles where to find them and observe little girls (which they refer to as “LGs”) for sexual gratification is all perfectly legal.

As a result, his case has stirred debate, particularly since his arrest on Monday, over whether attempting to restrict unseemly behavior that isn’t criminal violates a person’s constitutional rights.

“There is no law against someone making you feel uncomfortable,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and a Loyola Law School professor. “There’s a line to cross and I don’t think he has yet. He’s tiptoeing around the law.”

My question is…what about the rights of a toddler or a child? Don’t they have any privacy rights? Don’t they deserve to be protected from sexual depravity and exploitation?

Why isn’t this behavior illegal??

Why do pedophiles have more rights than small children? What makes a pedophile more important than a baby or child? I just don’t get it.

I mean, why should a 3 year old, or a 4, 5, 6 year old, or any child be aware that there are creepy men that lust after them and if they want to take their picture, put it up on the internet and/or sit next to them and sexually fantasize about them, then they just have to deal. If a man wants to sit underneath a playground set and look up a small child’s skirt, is society obligated to protect that right???

That should be unacceptable to any human being with any decency.

We need law makers to act. Unfortunately, our laws are not adequate for this new internet threat. Our founding fathers could not have had the foresight to imagine a loophole would exist to make the exploitation of children legal.

This is not okay. It should never be okay.

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